title: [Angiosarcoma of the breast--histopathologic and electron microscopy picture].
abstract: The authors describe angiosarcoma of the right breast, together with the pathohistologic and electron microscopic analysis and survey of the literature of this rare tumor. The greatest tumor diameter was 4.5 cms. Mastectomy and the axilla's dissection was performed and additionally, radiotherapy was undertaken. In the first biopsy the wrong diagnosis of ductal invasive carcinoma was made. Three years later a metastasis appeared in the left axilla when angiosarcoma was established. The revision of primary tumor of the right breast showed that previously it was angiosarcoma of the right breast, too. In this article the authors direct attention to the possibility of wrong diagnosis of benign or malignant tumor and list the results taken from the world literature. Following those results, the wrong diagnoses were made in 37% of the cases with breast angiosarcoma.
authors.affiliation: Odjela za patologiju i citologiju Sredisnjeg instituta za tumore i slicne bolesti u Zagrebu.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Separović
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sarcević
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Knezević
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spoljar-Sćukanec
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kosanović
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nola
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Angiosarkom dojke--patohistoloska i elektronskomikroskopska slika.